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The Paul George and Zach Randolph incidents were different. Paul George took a step or two towards the court, but stayed in the vicinity of the bench. Zach Randolph took a shot at Adams which was worst in my opinion. But the Thunder would've won tonight regardless.

The rule says all player not in the game "must remain in the vicinity of their bench". He never left the vicinity of the bench. He took two steps forward and stopped. That to me was still vicinity of the bench

The NBA clearly defined the rule with its past precedent of enforcement. Taking any steps off the sideline was defined as leaving the vacinity. It's that simple. I don't agree with previous enforcement but that's the way the NBA has judge this rule and until an off season change was stated it should have remained being enforced the same way. It's clear that it wanted George to play and had this been a no name player they'd have suspended him.

It may just be me but I'm disappointed by the NBA. They made the letter of the law call on Randolph on the 7th seed from a small market team against the MVP's team but in they didn't make it on George for coming off the bench during the scuffle which is an automatic 1 game suspension. The NBA is getting what they want a good number of game 7s with the teams they want advancing going on.

Yep. Typical NBA manipulation of the post season. Their bias interpretations of the rules makes it impossible to really enjoy. It's basically like watching the WWE.

The NBA clearly defined the rule with its past precedent of enforcement. Taking any steps off the sideline was defined as leaving the vacinity. It's that simple. I don't agree with previous enforcement but that's the way the NBA has judge this rule and until an off season change was stated it should have remained being enforced the same way. It's clear that it wanted George to play and had this been a no name player they'd have suspended him.

different commissioners means different rules of enforcement for rules open to interpretation.